Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Six

Is poetry only meant for teaching what is time-honoured what is authorised what seeks not to rock the ship of fate Part Six Helas! My universally-renowned peerless ancestor! I’d like to think You’d be the first to have recognized the always changing world The first to have accepted the parting of ways For your intelligence your foresight and hindsight Your immensely powerful quill would have sought other remedies other means to convince a wayward world a world far too gone and worldly-wise to hatch the nuances of your admonishing word all afresh N’empêche your name is a comet hurtling down the ages ©T.Wignesan, December 2001, Paris, France (from the Sequence: "Words for a Lost Sub-Continent", 1999 )